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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
The English Names of our Commonest Wild Flowers, by R. 
Fisher. Arbroath : T. Buncle & Co., pp. 249, 3/6 net. Canon Fisher’s 
work on the wild flowers of the Whitby district is so well known to 
northern botanists that the publication of his book will be received with 
particular pleasure. The present work is perforce limited to the English 
names of the plants present in all the 112 comital districts into which 
the country is divided. We may hope that in due course the remainder 
of the 17,000 names in the original manuscript may appear in publication. 
To the materialist, the utility of having an excellent book of reference 
to the common English plant names will no doubt commend the book. 
But Canon Fisher’s work may also serve as a timely reminder that there 
are flowers of the language as well as flowers of the field, for many of the 
names he has collected are as charming as the plants to which they 
belong. To many readers the most fascinating part of the present volume 
will be the manner in which clues are constantly given as to the origin 
of the names. These are of great interest, especially as other sources of 
information in this field are not readily a/ailable. While no one can 
expect the English names to replace the Latin ones for scientific purposes, 
yet the popular names are, after all, the ones which appeal to most people. 
A knowledge of their origins and meanings should undoubtedly stimulate 
our interest in the plants themselves as it will certainly increase our 
pleasure in their pursuit. 
Mosses of Hong Kong, with other Chinese Mosses, by H. N. 
Dixon , Hong Kong Naturalist. Supplement No. 2, March, 1933, pp.1-31, 
and two plates. This paper, intended to form a basis for a complete 
account of the bryology of Hong Kong, originated in collections made by 
Dr. G. A. C. Herklots ; but more extended expeditions in Kwangtung 
and Fukien, and material received from Rev. E. Licent, Miss D. Wheldon 
and several other sources, induced the author to widen the scope. Twenty - 
nine species new to science are described, and eighteen others are newly 
recorded, bringing the total of Chinese mosses to 1,125. Read in con- 
junction with a paper published by Dr. H. Reimers in Hedwigia in 1931 
(Bd. LXXI, pp. 1-77, 24 text fig.) there is now available a concise 
account of what is known to date of Chinese mosses, to stimulate interest 
in this branch of natural history, already great in Japan and appreciable 
in China. Dr. Herklots, who is a member of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union, is to be congratulated on this, one of several similar activities, 
and on having secured the help of so eminent a bryologist as Mr. Dixon 
for the description of the material. Specimens of the mosses are in the 
Herbarium of the University of Leeds. 
The Entomologist’ s Record for May contains ‘ An Account of My 
Studies in the Biology of P. rapes ,’ by Orazio Querci ; ‘ Lepidoptera at 
Maurin, Basses Alpes,’ by A. E. Burras, W. P. Curtis and W. Fassnidge ; 
various notes on collecting, etc., and the continuation of the supplement 
‘ British Noctuae,’ by H. J. Turner. 
The Entomologist’ s Monthly Magazine for June contains ‘ More New 
and Little-known British Thrips,’ by R. S. Bagnall ; ‘ Neuraphes 
elongatulus Mull et Kunze ab glabricollis Machulka, an Aberration New 
to Britain,' by H. Donisthorpe (from under spruce bark at St. Albans) ; 
‘ Two Ichneumon Parasites of Lophyrus pini Klug.,’ by W. B. R. 
Laidlaw (with plates of Lamachus pini Bridg. var. caledonicus Laidl., 
and Holocremna macellator Thnbg. var. cothurnata Holmg. from Scotland) ; 
‘ The Insect and Allied Fauna of Cultivated Mushrooms,’ by M. D. 
Austin ; ‘ Meigen’s Nouvelle Classification, 1800, ’ by E. R. Goffe ; and 
short notes on Coleoptera and Proctotrypidae. 
The Naturalist 
